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/ 19 November 2004
Oil prices bubbled higher on Friday on worries that a cold winter in the United States and Europe could lead to a squeeze on supplies of heating oil. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, climbed by 55 cents to ,77 a barrel in electronic deals at 11am GMT.
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/ 19 November 2004
South Africa’s reluctance to give political refugee status to Zimbabweans when they are denied food as part of a political agenda needs to be put before a South African court in a test case, a bishop said on Friday. This call came from Bishop Kevin Dowling of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace.
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/ 19 November 2004
It took 10 people about 45 minutes to carry an overweight man from his home in the western Turkey town of Bolu to a waiting ambulance, from where he was transported to a hospital in Istanbul. Mustafa Ozacar, a father of two, decided to be hospitalised after ballooning out to 320kg for no diagnosed reason.
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/ 19 November 2004
Any delay in the development of economic ties between South Africa and the Russian Federation could cost the two countries dearly, Russian Resources Minister Yuri Petrovich Trutnev said on Friday. ”Those who are late are losers and we don’t want to be losers,” Trutnev said, referring to the competitiveness of the global trade arena.
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/ 19 November 2004
President Thabo Mbeki renewed his call on Friday for the worldwide disarmament of nuclear weapons, saying the current slanted situation should not be allowed to continue. For many decades, from the 1950s, the ANC has been an active opponent of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, Mbeki said.
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/ 19 November 2004
A Hindu seer in India’s eastern Orissa state was berated by angry crowds when he failed to die after declaring his soul would leave his body at an appointed time, a report said on Friday. The chief cleric of the Sriguru Ashram in the Kharagaon area of Konark said he would die a natural death on Wednesday between 6am and noon.
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/ 19 November 2004
Text messaging may have some advantages, but a New Zealand drug dealer has found it can be very bad for business when you don’t know where the recipient is. When Anthony Crown sent an SMS with a methamphetamine offer, he didn’t know his client was sitting in a Wellington police station — having just been arrested for burglary.
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/ 19 November 2004
Incumbent Niger President Mamadou Tandja is leading in the country’s presidential elections, national radio said on Friday. ”Provisional overall results will be known today [Friday] … with the answer to the question whether there will be a second round,” the radio said.
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/ 19 November 2004
A week after his death, speculation still swirls around what killed Yasser Arafat. Cirrhosis of the liver, Aids, a blood disorder and poisoning are frequently mentioned in unconfirmed reports — all consistent with the little that is publicly known about the medical condition that landed the Palestinian leader in a French hospital.